Arts and humanities
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Hilton Als
Teaching professor of English
Stephen Best
Professor of English; Director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities
Areas of expertise: 19th-century American literature, African American literature, critical theory, film
Rizvana Bradley
Assistant professor of film and media
Vikram Chandra
Teaching professor of English literature
John Alba Cutler
Associate professor of English
Areas of expertise: 20th- and 21st-century American literature, Chicanx and Latinx literature, poetry
Jeroen Dewulf
Queen Beatrix Professor in Dutch Studies; Professor in German Studies; Faculty academic director of Berkeley Study Abroad; Director of the Institute of European Studies; Director of the Center for Portuguese Studies
Areas of expertise: Colonial history, Dutch studies, language and identity, cultural anthropology, postcolonial and cosmopolitan theory
Penny Edwards
Associate professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies
Areas of expertise: Political and cultural history of Southeast Asia, French colonialism, British imperialism, French India, British India, comparative colonialism, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Chinese diaspora, cinema and theater, material and visual culture, travel and translation, gender, nationalism, Buddhism, economic history, global history
Julia Fawcett
Associate professor of theater, dance and performance studies
Jeremy Geffen
Executive and artistic director, Cal Performances
Philip Kan Gotanda
Professor of theater, dance and performance studies
Areas of expertise: Theater, playwriting, Asian American, Japanese American, cross-cultural, indie film, new music opera